ABSTRACT
The twentieth century was a time of unmitigated horrors. Two world wars and political oppression unknown in the history of humanity, together with the wholesale murder of innocents that accompanied that oppression, seemed to confound the reasoning faculties of some of our most competent thinkers. Right reason seems to have been unable to fathom it all. In the end, many were left with very little confidence that they understood what had in fact transpired.
